IT giant HCL Technologies officially makes downtown Hartford home
HARTFORD, Connecticut (HBJ) Though the region’s office market has mostly been in a holding pattern since COVID-19 hit Connecticut more than 10 months ago, there have been some bright spots.
One of the largest and most recent examples is a new downtown lease signed by IT outsourcing giant HCL Technologies, which this month followed through on its Feb. 2020 pre-pandemic promise that it would plant its flag downtown in order to serve its client Stanley Black & Decker.
HCL recently signed a lease for nearly 16,700 square feet of Class A office space at 10 State House Square, the Hartford Business Journal has learned.
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Garry Thomas reckons Indigenous Australians face racism all the time.
The 66-year-old retiree from the outer Melbourne suburb of Melton West says âregardless of all our so-called racism laws, they are still being picked on today, even our federal government is doing it.â
Garry Thomas, 66, from Melton West is opposed to changing the Australia Day date, but would change his mind if Indigenous Australians were polled and overwhelmingly supported a change.
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Mr Thomas cites the cashless welfare cards, which have been trialled largely in low socio-economic Indigenous populations, that limit what people can buy with welfare payments. âThey are discriminating against people with this Indue card,â Mr Thomas says.
77459 I believe the focus should be on changing attitudes, Senator McCarthy told Today. We have so much to do in our country that we can do and should be doing, and I would like to see a lot more energy into changing the attitudes of towards not only first nations people but how we can work together going forward on 26th January.
Northern Territory senator Malarndirri McCarthy speaks about the debate to change the date of Australia Day.(Nine News/Today)
The date change debate had escalated into a much more frenzied sort of discussion in recent years, she said.
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Australians have plenty to celebrate on Australia Day. Unfortunately, every year we find ourselves debating whether one distinction in particular â our choice of date for our national day â is worth celebrating at all.
National days around the world typically mark the anniversaries of national achievements such as the birth of the American republic on July 4, 1776, the confederation of Canadaâs provinces on July 1, 1867, or New Zealandâs Waitangi Treaty with Maori on February 6, 1840.
Eddie Mabo, whose historic High Court win on June 3, 1992 removed the legal fiction of terra nullius. Could that date become a national day to unite all Australians?